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Ruminate Magazine: “Chewing on Life, Faith and Art” announces a call to artists for a juried print exhibition in the Winter Issue #22, which releases mid-December and is distributed nationally. $500 cash prize and publication in Issue #22 for first place, plus publication in Issue 22 for runner-up. The finalist juror is award-winning artist Sandra [...]
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Rob Hays makes a case for sincerity and emotion in art in his article “With Feeling.” He writes: Yet we are often loath to approach the heights of real emotion in art, so we put on a protective cloak of irony, a distancing that allows us to laugh off any real sincerity…. Irony allows us [...]
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Meaghan Ritchey discusses the power of singer/songwriters in her article “The Power Lies in the Performance“: In a very sincere way, they’ve figured out how to make their work habit forming. Every performance and song is imbued with personality. This labor of love, habit forming “personality” is something Matthew Miller explores in his piece “A [...]
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Josh Cacopardo brings up the recent US Court of Appeals case Bronx Household of Faith, Robert Hall and Jack Roberts v. Board of Eduction of the City of New York and Community School District No. 10 as a potentially landmark case that changes the way faith groups can use public facilities in his article “Taking [...]
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Over at GOOD there is a post about the Combat Paper Project. Check out: An Artistic Outlet for Veterans: The Combat Paper Project The Combat Paper Project, hosts papermaking workshops that help veterans come to terms with their personal experiences in combat through art therapy. “Through papermaking workshops veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create [...]
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If you haven’t read it already, take a moment to read Dorothy Sayer’s essay “Why Work?” She closes the piece with a thought-provoking quote from Jacques Maritain. “What is required is the perfect practical discrimination between the end pursued by the workman and the ned to be served by the work, so that the [...]
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“Continuing to cultivate a life less of myself and lived more for others includes the resumption of hand-writing letters, notes, and cards.” – Jenni Simmons, “An Epistolary Confession” What types of activities do you do to cultivate a life less of yourself?
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Over at GOOD there is a post on a great initiative by Heads Up. Check out: Nonprofit Spotlight: Giving Providence’s Most Vulnerable a Head’s Up. “Founded in 2000, HeadsUp (an acronym for “Health, Education, Arts Developing Strength, Unity and Peace”) was a grassroots effort focused on reaching downtown Providence, Rhode Island’s vulnerable populations, including those diagnosed [...]
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How do you respond to Abby Farson Pratt‘s questions in her article “You Write Like a Girl“: “Is there something about men on an inherent and fundamental level that keeps men from valuing” women’s writing? “Have men been subtly cultured to devalue women’s writing?” Share your thoughts in the comments.
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“One of the great tools of art is that it helps us slow down and reflect. It’s a rarity in our culture to be able to stand, mouth agape, and take in beauty for long periods of time.” -Brian Watkins, “The Quiet Film” When is the last time you stood agape and took in beauty [...]
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